LAUSANNE, March 29, 2025 - With the goal of enhancing the skills and experiences of high-performance athletes and better preparing them for the labor market with a suitable professional transition, the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) successfully completed another year of the “Athletes’ Career Program,“ Transition Core (PAC), reaching 146 graduated athletes.The Program, an initiative of the COB through the Brazilian Olympic Institute (IOB), supports athletes in their comprehensive development through a...

ACCRA, March 28, 2025 - Leicester City’s Ghanaian forward Jordan Pierre Ayew has finally, later than expected, become the substantive captain of the Ghana football team, the Black Stars.  Named captain ahead of Ghana’s double-header March fixtures against Chad and Madagascar in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Jordan becomes the third member of the Ayew family, after his father the great Abedi Pele Ayew and brother Andre Ayew, to lead Ghana. And this is such a remarkable story in the history of not just...

WARSAW, March 28, 2025 - Before the 2026 World Cup Group G qualifying match between Poland and Lithuania at the National Stadium in Warsaw on 21 March, sports journalists from both countries, KDS (Klub Dziennikarzy Sportowych and LSŻF (Lietuvos Sporto Żurnalisty Federacija), showed off their skills in a friendly match on the training pitch of Legia Warsaw. The hosts proved to be better in the confrontation, defeating their rivals 3-2 (1-0). The goals were scored by: Mateusz Skwierawski (2) and Krzysztof...

ZURICH, March 28, 2025 - The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has announced that each of the four African teams participating in the maiden FIFA Club World Cup will receive a staggering USD 9.55 million participation fee.The four African teams, namely Al Ahly (Egypt), Esperance (Tunisia), Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa), and Wydad Athletic Club (Morocco), will earn the same participation fee as the teams from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the Confederation of North,...